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# Imtiaz Patel, CEO of The Baltimore Banner, moves to Gannett
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/imtiaz-patel-ceo-of-the-baltimore-banner-moves-to-gannett/
- Published: 2023-06-03T20:21:02.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-04T11:20:13.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Media, Maryland News, #wp-upper-left-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:53

**Imtiaz Patel,** who as CEO guided **The Baltimore Banner** through its launch last year, will step down early next month to assume an undisclosed leadership position at **Gannett**, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, reports citybiz.

“I’m tremendously proud of what we have achieved to bring locally owned, not-for-profit news to Baltimore,” Patel, who will remain on the Banner’s board of directors, was quoted by the Banner as saying in a memo to staff.

“We have over 70,000 subscribers with paid access, a growing audience and work that has already had a meaningful impact. With a strong leadership team in place, I am confident that The Banner will go from strength to strength,” he added.

Former Boston Globe editor **Brian McGrory** will lead the nonprofit until a new CEO is identified, the Banner said. McGrory is currently a member of the Banner’s board.

Baltimore Banner founder **Stewart Bainum, Jr.**, a Montgomery County businessman and chairman of Choice Hotels International, first hired Patel as a consultant in 2020\. But after losing a bid to acquire the Baltimore Sun Media Group and its then-parent, Tribune Publishing, Bainum started the Banner as a nonprofit, hiring Patel as its CEO, states citybiz.

More [here](https://www.citybiz.co/baltimore-banner-ceo-imtiaz-patel-to-join-gannett/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).